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Showing the Gateway, with Keystone bearing the name “ Newgate 
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Seventy-foot Shaft, (1); Front wall, (2); Sentry, (3); Chapel, (4). 

















Interior of Yard, (1); Workshop, (2); Shoe Shop, (3); Hospital Rooms 
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Section of Blacksmith, Wheelwright, Nail and Cabinet Shops Nail 
shop (1) where the prisoners, after making false Keys frcm the 
pewter buttons on their clothes, at a given signal unlocked their 
fetters. They marched through the Doorway (2), over the Bridge 
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Interior of Mine, showing foot of Ladder (1), and Steps ( 2 ) to the 
Bunks (3) where the British, Tory, and State Prisoners slept, for 
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Foot of 70 foot Shaft (1), Showing Pump (2) and entrance to the 
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